The New Newspaper is Old News

In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't read the newspaper in years. Everything that I feel is necessary can be found online. Its not that I don't find it useful or enjoy reading the paper, it is just that the paper is at such a disadvantage to online media. The cost to print one color picture in the newspaper trumps putting an infinite amount of digital photos on the web. The paper is restricted to one or two colored pictures that epitomize the story, but digital media can display everything, even allowing just the pictures themselves to tell the whole story. The idea of pictures telling the whole story is something that could never happen in print. Also, the newspaper is restricted to covering things that happen before midnight. Anything that you are reading in the paper has already been covered by six different writers in six different angles online. By 6 am when the paper has shown up at your door, you already know more about the story they are covering than the person who wrote it for the paper. For example, when the police were finally starting to break the Clark Rockefeller case and find out about his identity, the Union Leader was still reporting stuff that I had read the previous two days. I thought news was supposed to be timely? My biggest dissent from the newspaper however, comes from the amount of content restrictions. In the paper, everything, besides the editorials and select columnists, is middle of the road, dry, censored and polite. All the reporters follow the same basic rules, and use similar tools to tell the same stories. There is no arguing, hostility, or any controversial view points. That is what I LOVE the most about the internet. People writing their own blogs, or running their own websites are free to display whatever content they please. I could write here that I hate the President and think that Paris Hilton would do a better job. I don't have to worry about getting at ends with the editors of the paper or offending corporate sponsors. I write what I want to write. This is the American ideal of freedom of speech at its roots. I can write my ideas of my views of my America, and not have to worry about YOUR politics.